Ridpath's Universal history - an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the (14597583270)

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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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SWAMP FOREST OF RUSSIA.—Drawn by De la Charlerie, after a painting u£ Ruysdael, tains, with long and sheltered valleysstretched here and there at angles, re-ceiving in some cases, rejecting inothers, the sunshine—in other words,were the country Greece instead of Rus-sia, Western Europe instead of EasternEurope, we might have expected a dif-ferent result. If we suppose the Rus-sian type, that is, the Slavonian type, tohave been fixed in its character before ble degree the integrity of the Russianform and features. One of circumstancesthese is that in emigrating ^^^^,^11.^ or moving from place to of the Russians. place the Russians do not go singly orby twos and threes, but by whole vil-lages and colonies. Moreover, thechasm between the Slavonians and theTuranian Asiatics has been a very dif-ferent abyss, more wide and deep,more
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RUSSIAN MITJTARY TYPES.—Ismail Bek and his Three Tchatars.—Drawn by Thiriat, from a photograph. THE SLAVS.—RUSSIANS PROPER. 137 difficult to pass, than are those shallowerdivisions which separate the differentbranches of the Aryan family from eachother. This signifies that the Russianfeatures would be maintained, evenalong- the Turanian border; that theywould not give and take by intermar-riage freely, as do the kinspeople ofAryan derivation. And to all this wemust add the overwhelming mass ofSlavonic life strong enough and vastenough to draw up and extinguish any feeling and practice tends in a large de-gree to maintain the integrity of theRussian people around all other frontiersof the empire. It is from these causes that a toleral^ledegree of purity has been maintained inthe Russian race. Even when the vSla-vonians reinforce and improve themselvesby the introduction of other ethnicaltypes, they do so by absorption, and therise of half-breed races among them israrely or never